Rangers clinch £2.35million deal in fee and wages – report

Jordan Rossiter will earn £10,000-a-week at Rangers after putting pen to paper on a four-year contract, according to a report.

The England Under-19 international was unveiled as a Rangers player on Friday night after arriving in Glasgow to complete the formalities of his move from Liverpool.

Rossiter is out of contract at Anfield at the end of the season and has exploited a FIFA loophole allowing him to join a club outside of England for just £250,000.

According to the Scottish Daily Mail, Rossiter will earn £10,000-a-week, equivalent to £2.1million over the course of his four-year contract. Coupled with the transfer fee, the combined cost of the deal is £2.35million.

Former Liverpool academy director Frank McParland played an instrumental role in the capture of the midfielder after providing a glowing endorsement of the Anfield academy graduate to Warburton.

“I know Frank McParland from my Liverpool days and working with the academy with him and he is a great fella,” Rossiter told the Rangers website. “I am looking forward to working with him again and getting started here.

“He didn’t need to sell the club to me, it doesn’t need much selling. You look at Murray Park, which is a great training facility and then Ibrox; I walked into Ibrox and I was a bit taken aback by it.

“I walked in and saw all the mahogany walls and it’s nice and old, you can tell it is a stadium with a lot of history and I’m sure there will be a lot more made there in the future.

“I chose Rangers because of the history it has got, it is a massive club and I don’t think people realise down south how big a club it really is.

“I think I have always known and so have my family and it is just a great opportunity to carry on learning my trade.”

The teenager has become Rangers’ first signing of the summer as manager Mark Warburton prepares the team for life back in the top flight next season.

Warburton has made it clear that he wants the newly promoted club to sign up to eight new players this summer as he strengthens the squad.

Rossiter, who joined the Liverpool Academy at the age of six and grew up in Everton Valley, was handed his debut in a League Cup tie aged 17 and made five appearances in total for the first team.

But there was no indication he figures in Jurgen Klopp’s plans in a campaign in which the youngsters have been handed lots of first-team chances due to the team’s gruelling fixture list and various injury problems.